Mother Nature has been good to us on our trip. We haven't had any flight delays or tour cancellations due to weather and we've only had a few days of poor weather. And then we reached Fiji ...
Fiji got a pile of rain just as we arrived - 26 centimetres (10 inches) of rain fell during a 48 hour period. After this downpour, the rain let up a little but the road to our hotel was flooded and impassable.
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| One of the flooded roads; we heard the road to our hotel was worse |
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| You needed a 4x4 to get anywhere |
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| Many homes were flooded |
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| Kids had fun swimming in the currents alongside the road |
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| The floods made the beach and the ocean very un-Fiji colours of grey and brown |
We got checked in to a nice hotel on a part of the island that wasn't flooded and the weather improved after a couple of days. Things were OK but the forecast was for more rain so we decided to not stay for a full week as originally planned. It was a hard choice as we were booked into some very nice places in Fiji including one night in an over-the-water bungalow with a see-through floor. With mixed feelings, we left Fiji after four days in search of sun.
The Sunshine Coast on the east side of Australia seemed like the perfect destination for us. Sunshine was what we were looking for and we were able to get flights that fit with the rest of our trip. So we booked our flights and we were on our way to Brisbane.
Unfortunately for us, the bad weather that was plaguing Fiji was also hitting Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. We arrived to find more rain and wind.
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| This was one of the few breaks in the rain; it started raining again an hour later |
We found a very nice apartment in Mooloolaba - a quiet beach town on the Sunshine Coast. We didn't get the sun we were looking for but we did get a little bit of rest before we began our six week journey through Asia.
Next up - Vietnam!
Vanessa and Blake
